I mean, the 6a still has 3 years of support left so whilst it is older it is hardly at the end of its supported life.

Not everyone can change a battery in a phone, I can but I would still rather not do it on a phone that isn’t really anything special and whilst yes they could feasibly last that long I think in practical everyday use application by the time you are getting to three years of daily use it will be beaten up and physically not in great shape any more for your average user.

What relevance does that have to what I said? If the physical phone isn’t going to last that long then I’d argue it is of little importance.

These devices aren’t even constructed to last 7 years. I don’t see that either of those things are worth £600 personally.

Fuck all that noise, Pixel 6a + graphene £130. Why waste so much money!?

I couldn’t tell you. The page / list was made for graphene and I don’t know the technical differences between running that and lineage + micro g so not sure if the same list could apply. Sorry.

Yeah i understand what you are saying and that is why everyone’s individual needs come into play.

I don’t know what country you are in and that can obviously affect things, my banks 2FA is an SMS. I have options in terms of the other things you mentioned, where as you may not have.

For people looking to change and are worried about banks bullshit here is a link to a list of currently supported bank apps.

“Making day to day life functionally impossible” is a bit drastic. I think that depends on each individual person, their needs both in terms of banking and privacy.

My banking app doesn’t work on Graphene but I also couldn’t care less. I can just as easily log in to my account via my browser on my phone if I need to do something and it isn’t exactly hard, it takes all of 30 seconds more than using an app.

I realise in some other countries you don’t have that option but were I in the same situation for me that would be enough to change banks, I don’t want to be forced to use an app for anything.

Everyone has different lengths they are willing to go to to protect their privacy and I’m willing to make my life slightly harder where as others may not but I think saying it makes life functionally impossible is a bit of an overstatement and it needs to be judged based on individual needs.

There is a list of what banking apps work and what don’t.I’ll post it in a top level comment for visibility.

Good to know, thanks :)

My point was such a thing does not exist.

Please do recommend an open source fitness tracking app that supports watches from Garmin, I’ll wait.

Ah, not sure then I’m afraid, that’s all I’ve got xD

What genre of music is it you are looking for?

I follow a lot of people on SoundCloud and will listen to different mixes from people I already like which can then introduce me to new tunes and artists via those mixes.

I also follow a lot of people on bandcamp which can help me keep up with their releases but also you can follow different genre tags on there which will then suggest you new and older releases that fall within that genre. You can also browse the genre tag to then get suggestions of artists you may not already be aware of.

Also on bandcamp if you browse a lot of the same genre you will notice users who buy a lot of the same genre as you so I have a few “fans” I follow and I will periodically look through their purchases to find new shit.

The only downside to the genre tags on bandcamp is the artists incorrectly tagging their release so for example I follow dubstep mainly but a lot of people that release this kind of music will use both the dubstep and drum and bass tags for the same releases even if it only actually falls into one of them.

In this same vein you can have a look at the charts on things like Juno or beatport (although personally I can’t stand beatport so will not buy from them) that will list new releases within a genre or list what is selling well (new and old) within that genre.

I moved from Mullvad to AirVPN when they made this change and have been pretty happy with it so far tbh, maybe check them out? :)

Does it though when they control both ends. It is encrypted between each end which I guess secures against things like a man in the middle attack from outside parties but their app encrypts it on one end and decrypts it on the other. I have a very hard time believing that they don’t “read” your messages at some point in that process.

I moved away from gmail this year and have experienced absolutely none of these things.

Struggling at the moment to find something to get into.

Played around 4 hours of Days Gone and it didn’t really grab my attention.

Played THPS 1+2, got to area 51 on the first game within around an hour and just found it boring these days, I got ruined by Skate and it’s far superior control scheme.

Started on Forza Horizon 5, I really enjoyed playing 4 during covid and I am craving this kind of arcade racing but I am just struggling to get into this one. I think it is a combination of the map being boring as fuck and so by extension so are the races and there being so much going on on the map yet seemingly nothing to really do. Also being presented DLC on the map as if it is a race I can go and do really rubbed me up the wrong way a bit.

I have Disgaea 6 to try as well as Wasteland 3 and Disco Elysium but really not feeling an RPG right now. I’d like to try NFS Unbounded but refuse to download a shitty launcher to do so so now I’m lost xD

I want a KeyThree damn it! XD KeyTwo is the best phone I ever owned.

Doubt you’ll get a reply because it is bullshit. I’m not a fan of Epic within the games space and they may not have improved things like the Bandcamp app but to say that it has “gone to shit” under them is just straight idiocy. More accurately they have done nothing to or with band camp really.

I have tried dual booting in the past but it becomes a pita for me as usually the majority of my time spent on a computer is using those things that only worked within windows so why change back just to say browse the web for example.

In the past it was games that were a pain to run but I haven’t tried it in the last 3 years or so and know that it has gotten a lot better with the advent of steam giving a shit about Linux more so due in no small part I’m sure of the steam deck.

The problem with virtual machines or WINE or whatever is the current standard for emulating a windows environment is that one application depends heavily on audio latency. It needs to run well and provide as close to zero latency as possible. Like I’ve said in a few other replies, maybe it is time I tried it out again as it has been a few years since I gave switching over a go, I need to have the time to put into getting it up and running and fixing any problems that arise however :D